First Steps

This guide provides instructions for installation, help on getting started and extensive documentation of features. It is recommended you read it thoroughly to fully leverage the Spectrum theme's capabilities. Please also make sure to check out our Video Tutorials as they explain everything covered in here in greater depth. We hope you enjoy building with Spectrum as much as we enjoyed developing it and continue to develop with new features!

We hope you will enjoy working with Spectrum theme.
Yours sincerely, Cmssuperheroes.

Server requirements is one of the key factors for WordPress and Spectrum theme,
it is highly recommended to use a server which supports the following requirements.
We explain about WordPress, Spectrum , WooCommerce server requirements.

WordPress requirements

WordPress recommends following server settings.

Setting

Description

PHP

Version 7 or greater.

MySQL

Version 5.6 or greater.

MariaDB

Version 10.0 or greater. Only required if you are not using MySQL.

HTTPS

Supported by the server.

Spectrum requirements

We recommends following server settings for Our WordPress Theme:

Setting

Description

PHP

Version 5.6 or greater.

MySQL

Version 5.6 or greater

mod_rewrite

The Apache module needs to be activated for pretty permalinks.

GD Library

The library needs to be installed for Captcha and Image cropping.

cURL

Supported by the server.

OpenSSL

Supported by the server.

allow_url_fopen

Supported by the server.

post_max_size

64 MB or greater

upload_max_filesize

64 MB or greater

memory_limit

256 MB or greater

max_execution_time

120s or greater

max_input_vars

The minimum value is 4000 but the recommended is 6000.

WooCommerce requirements

Spectrum support WooCommerce officially so it is best to make sure your server also supports this plugin requirements if you are going to set up a shop.To learn about the plugin server requirements, read the official article.

This is definitely the easier route for most. Simply navigate to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme. Click the 'browse' button and locate the still zipped theme folder. The theme will be uploaded and installed in a matter of seconds.

Here is our video tutorial to help you through the process

(Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)

After you have installed the theme successfully, you can optionally import the supplied dummy data in order to get a feel for things. If you're interested in importing the data, please check the Demo Data section below

After installation, you will be suggested to install additional plugins. To install them and activate, please navigate to Plugins, you will see a list of required and optional plugins. We recommend that you install the following to get the best of our theme:

Visual Composer is the most popular drag and drop editor for wordpress.

Create a responsive (mobile friendly) or fullwidth slider with must-see-effects and meanwhile keep or build your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines). See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page!

Customize this slider with our convenient drag & drop backend to your very needs. This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.

Because you can read about the differences between the extended and regular licence. We are permitted to give you the purchase code of the plugins because of policy and terms of Theme Forest. We always update the plugins via theme updates and you will receive the latest version of this plugins via email.

When planning the structure of your menu, it helps to think of each menu item as a heading in a formal report document. In a formal report, main section headings (Level 1 headings) are the nearest to the left of the page; sub-section headings (Level 2 headings) are indented slightly further to the right; any other subordinate headings (Level 3, 4, etc) within the same section are indented even further to the right.

The WordPress menu editor allows you to create multi-level menus using a simple 'drag and drop' interface. Drag menu items up or down to change their order of appearance in the menu. Drag menu items left or right in order to create sub-levels within your menu.

To make one menu item a subordinate of another, you need to position the 'child' underneath its 'parent' and then drag it slightly to the right.

Pages

With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize for some sections on Page.

Note: If you perform custom in Page option, your page will run with this set up and all set up in Theme option will be invalid. If you don't perform custom any things, your site will run with all option in Theme option.

Widgets

1. Navigate to Appearance>Widgets to access the list of widgets and widget section that they can be added. The left hand side show all widgets you can use. The right hand side shows all different section you can add widgets to.

2. Simply drag and drop the widget you want into the widgets section you want to the right hand side.

3. When you finished, you can visit the site to see results.

Theme Options

The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on WP Spectrum in the left-hand menu. Here you have the ability to alter many core aspects that make up how your theme looks and behaves. Any of the options that have some ambiguity to them conviently have descriptions to explain their purpose.

On this section, Spectrum theme had some available fonts for you. If you want to set a special font for a special class, you only need to insert your class into Selector section, and choose the font that you want on the Font dropdown box. Finally, you click Save changes and see your result, all completed.

This section is especially for all those who want to move settings from theme options panel between themes or when you move your website from test server to live. Please always remember to click "Save Changes" button. Without that you will lose all your changes.

Shortcode

Visual Composer is a powerful Wordpress page builder that allows you to create complex page layouts without touching a single line of code. To switch to Visual Composer's Backend Editor, click on this button:

When Visual Composer's editing pane comes up, click on either of these buttons to Add Element.

A shortcode selecting panel will show up, you can see all the shortcode available in the theme. Select the one you would like to use.

You will then encounter a setting panel for the shortcode (each shortcode has it own setting options), after a bit of configuration, it will show up nicely on your page.

SEO

Our themes are optimized by with H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 tags, clean code, HTML5 but if you want to get higher ranking on search engines, you must need some help from SEO plugins and Google Pagespeed Service:

Support

The team at Cmssuperheroes are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Spectrum theme.
If you need any help or support please contact us through the ThemeForest Messaging system or
Support Email: info@cmssuperheroes.comSupport Ticket: https://cmssuperheroes.ticksy.com/